Prof Farnad Imani is chairman of department of anesthesiology and pain medicine in Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), with 23 years' experience in academic postgraduate teaching in anesthesiology and pain medicine.
He is founder of academic pain fellowship in Iran at 2006, and established the pain ward and interventional pain operation room in Rasoul Akram Medical Center at the first time in Iran.
Prof Imani has passed a course of interventional pain procedures in Texas Tech University, USA, in 2008, and is a Fellowship of the Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) and secretory of World Institute of Pain (WIP), Iran section.
He is founder and past president of the Iran Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ISRAPM) at 2007. Also, he conducts numerous seminars in the field of Interventional Pain Management, and was chairman of some Congresses of Interventional Pain Medicine.
Prof Imani is pioneer of some Interventional Pain Procedures, such as percutaneous spinal fusion (pedicular screw & rod implantation), Endoscopic Spinal Procedures and disc decompression, kyphoplasty, epiduroscopy in Iran.
He has conducted several workshops on interventional pain procedures, and invited speaker for several International congresses.
Prof Imani is founder, chairman and editor in chief of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, which is the official Journal of ISRAPM. The journal welcomes all kinds of manuscripts which relevant to anesthesiology and pain Medicine field.
He is the author of several books in the fields of anesthesiology and pain medicine, and his first comprehensive pain textbook in Persian language was published in 2013.
Prof. Imani is the medical director and founder of the Mahya Pain Clinic. Until today, he continues to strive to be at the forefront for the treatment all spine and pain disorders. His passion for providing the most advanced medical and interventional pain technologies has made him well recognized in the field of pain management.
